Skeleton Knife in CS2: Skins, Cases & Prices

What is the Skeleton Knife?

The Skeleton Knife is a folding knife with an open, skeletonised handle and a fast flip animation. Like every knife it only exists as a rare special item: it drops from a handful of cases or comes out of a Covert-to-knife trade up.

Which cases drop the Skeleton Knife?

The finish set decides which skins you can get: a Doppler or Marble Fade Skeleton only comes from cases with Chroma finishes.

Every Skeleton Knife skin

All 19 Skeleton Knife finishes currently in the game:

Skeleton Knife

Skeleton Knife | Blue Steel

Skeleton Knife | Boreal Forest

Skeleton Knife | Case Hardened

Skeleton Knife | Crimson Web

Skeleton Knife | Damascus Steel

Skeleton Knife | DopplerRuby, Sapphire, Black Pearl, Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3, Phase 4

Skeleton Knife | Fade

Skeleton Knife | Forest DDPAT

Skeleton Knife | Marble Fade

Skeleton Knife | Night Stripe

Skeleton Knife | Rust Coat

Skeleton Knife | Safari Mesh

Skeleton Knife | Scorched

Skeleton Knife | Slaughter

Skeleton Knife | Stained

Skeleton Knife | Tiger Tooth

Skeleton Knife | Ultraviolet

Skeleton Knife | Urban Masked

How to get a Skeleton Knife

• Buy it: the cheapest way to get a specific finish and float.
• Knife trade up: five Covert skins from one of the cases above give a random item from that case's pool, which may or may not be a Skeleton. Check the odds in the knife trade up calculator.
• Unbox it: about 0.26% per case for any knife, and the pool is shared with other knives, so this is the most expensive route on average.

Picking a finish

Budget finishes (Safari Mesh, Boreal Forest, Scorched, Forest DDPAT, Urban Masked) are the cheapest way into a Skeleton. Fade, Doppler, Marble Fade, Case Hardened and Crimson Web sit at the top, and specific phases or patterns can multiply the price. More in the most expensive CS2 knives and the cheapest CS2 knives.

Compare with every other CS2 knife.

Frequently asked questions